What a difference a week makes. Americans regard Christmas as the nation's most important holiday, while New Year's Day falls a lot lower on the scale. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just seven percent (7%) consider New Year’s Day one of the nation’s most important holidays. Twenty-eight percent (28%) consider it one of the least important, while most (62%) rate it somewhere in between. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on December 22, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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